What's the most you've ever spent on a
- Thread starter Greedo
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gratts
New Member
- Location
- Nottingham
£9 
PpPete
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chandler's Ford
Once spent 100 French Francs (those were the days - pre Euro) in tiny restaurant in Fleurie (Beaujolais) .. the wine was so good, we ordered a second bottle. When we had sobered up (late next morning) we figured out they had only charged us for one bottle.
beancounter
Well-Known Member
- Location
- South Beds
About £40, for a bottle of Barolo in an expensive restaurant. Would be about £15 in the supermarket...
bc
bc
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
£15, not including restaurant bottles (which don't count).
Maizie
Guru
- Location
- NE Hertfordshire
£30 - for a jolly nice Amarone...
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User482
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£100
I have a couple of very fine clarets and a vintage champagne at home that are being kept for future wedding anniversaries. The trick is to make sure I don't open them in the next ten years.
I have a couple of very fine clarets and a vintage champagne at home that are being kept for future wedding anniversaries. The trick is to make sure I don't open them in the next ten years.
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User482
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Greedo said:A man after my own heart. Now we're talking?
What you got?
The best ones I have at the moment:
1996 Chateau Montrose
2004 (I think) Chateau Palmer
1998 Veuve Clicquot La Grande Damme
2004 Ornellaia Bolgheri IGT
Very nice. We may have a bit in common.
I love wine and so far have put myself through the Wine and Spirit Education Trust to advanced level. Last course I done I was the only non trade person doing it. Most of them thought I was mad just doing it as a hobby as they were all $hiting it if they didn't pass, and had to go back to their employers and tell them they had failed as it was £400 and one day per week for 12 weeks.
Next level for me is the diploma which is a 2 year day release course.
I love wine and so far have put myself through the Wine and Spirit Education Trust to advanced level. Last course I done I was the only non trade person doing it. Most of them thought I was mad just doing it as a hobby as they were all $hiting it if they didn't pass, and had to go back to their employers and tell them they had failed as it was £400 and one day per week for 12 weeks.
Next level for me is the diploma which is a 2 year day release course.
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User482
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Greedo said:
Good for you! So far, my education has been limited to three two hour sessions at Avery's wine merchants in Bristol, so you're much more educated about wine than I am. Beforehand, I'd always thought that after £15 or so, you couldn't really tell the difference. Then I tried a £40 Chassagne Montrachet, and swiftly revised my opinion...
I haven't tried any wines at the £80 - £100 bracket yet so I'm really looking forward to opening the ones I listed. Sadly, I'm going to need to wait a few years to enjoy them at their best.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
I've spent £40 for a good bottle of champagne once, a little less on a bottle of this, however the best thing I have ever drunk was a Cuvee Sylla from Borie de Maurel - and at only £18 an utter bargain - since he recommends keeping them for up to 15 years, I would get a case and put it down now if I was going to drink it. Michel Escande is quite my favourite wine producer and everything he makes at whatever price, is fantastic. These days I never buy wine except if I have friends over or am going to dinner somewhere. My wife doesn't drink, and I can't really ever drink more than a a couple of small glasses, which means opening a decent bottle of wine is a bit pointless.
